Katherine A. Yelick is the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. With a distinguished career in high-performance computing, interdisciplinary research, and academic leadership, Katherine brings extensive expertise in research policy, innovation strategy, and large-scale scientific collaboration.
Previously, she served as Executive Associate Dean in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) and was Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). She also led the Computing Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2010 to 2019. At Berkeley, she is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Katherine holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been a Berkeley faculty member since 1991. She is internationally recognized for her work in programming models and parallel computing, including co-inventing the Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Titanium languages. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is also a Fellow of ACM and AAAS and a recipient of the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award and the ACM-W Athena Award.
